Important to Wool-growers
The damage done to Australian wool by the intermixture of jute from the packs has been frequently complained of by manufactures. The following extract from a letter received by Messrs…
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Farming & the land, 1889
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Wool Sales
LONDON, Thursday.—At the wool sales there has been good competition. The series close on the 8th May…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The, wheat tone in England is dull, and at New York irregular…
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LONDON, Monday.—The wool market is hardening, especially for greasy merinos…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool market continues to be very animated. The present series of sales closes on May 4th…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The tone of the wool sales was more animated than at the opening series. The improvement was due to the increased demand from Germany and…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The London wool sale has been postponed in consequences of heavy fog…
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The wheat and flour market is without activity. Wheat deliveries are retarded through the farmers' seeding operations, and owing to the rapid growth of green feed. Wheat at Port Adelaide is worth 5s…
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LONDON, Friday.—Compared with the closing prices in February the present series of wool sales show in advance generally of from 5 to 7½ per cent. Greasy merinos were…
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THE Railway Commissioners have decided to carry seed wheat for distribution to distressed farmers at half the usual rate on production of an authorised certificates that the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, April 16, 1889. Cleaning Schools. School Savings Banks. Foreshores of Newcastle Harbour. The A. A. Co.'s Monopoly. Formal Motions. Seed Wheat. Ministerial Elections. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night
THE Speaker took the chair at 4.30 p.m. CLEANING SCHOOLS. In reply to a question by Mr. WADDELL, Mr. CARRUTHERS said it was not the intention…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The wool market is brisk and prices are firm…
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By cable from London dated 13th instant, the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company were advised by Messrs. Helmath, Schwartz, and Co. that the lately telegraphed improvement in…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—At the wool sales good combing sorts are 10 per cent, above the February rates and finest qualities are 12½ per cent, higher. The quantity…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The present series of colonial wool auction sales close on the 6th May…
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Some of the leading trade journals in England have predicted a probable advance in the British wheat market, while other authorities held a different opinion. The following particulars are by…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Select Committee of the Commons appointed to inquire into the grain question recommends a greater uniformity in the mode of selling grain by weight,…
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As showing what the late rains have effected in one of our sister colonies, we quote the following from the financial report by Mr. Frederick Wright, of Adelaide, dated April 13th:—"In common with…
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LONDON, Saturday. —Licht, the authority on sugar beet, estimates that the production of beet for the first seven months of the current year is 188,000 tons in excess of the…
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In yesterday's commercial column we published the substance of a cablegram, dated London, 17th inst., received by Messrs. John Sanderson and Co., Sydney, from their London house, to the effect…
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